Transnational Companies and Security Governance: Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

摘要

Jana Hoenke is ambitious in trying to examine everyday security practices around the sites of some multinational mining companies (MNC) in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a way to examine hybrid transnational security governance. The book is good at summarising the literature and theoretical debates over security governance and hybridity (Chapters 1-3). It also provides a sound summary of historical patterns in Southern Katanga, DRC and northwest Johannesburg, South Africa in the 1890s to 1920s (Chapter 6).